Word: damse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the island valley are 106,000 peasants, many of whom must still be convinced that President Magloire's favorite project is bon. Within 40 months, Haiti will have one of the world's highest buttress dams wedged in Peligre Canyon, 225 ft. high and 1,075 ft...
The agency would have authority to build dams and possibly assume such other financial burdens as flood control, navigation, fish & wildlife and recreation -all of which now get direct appropriations from Congress. Its financing would come primarily from revenue bonds.
Cain has voted against such proposals as public power, housing, Federal dams in Washington, virtually everything endorsed by labor groups, a 70 group air force, European military assistance aid. He once boasted, "I have been said by many to be the number one real-estate lobbyist in America. I have...
This year, after Kansas' billion-dollar flood of 1951 served notice that the Kansas City area might be inundated again & again until the Kansas and its tributaries were controlled, Congress appropriated $5,000,000 to start Tuttle Creek Dams. Embattled Blue Valley residents still hope to block the project...
Some Pick-Sloan critics charge that the plan envisions the use of more water than the valley contains. The arid western states insist that enough water be kept in their areas to meet the needs of future development. Spokesmen like Montana's big, bluff Governor John W. Bonner contend...